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← 436 MASS 340 - Commonwealth v. White

Commonwealth v. White’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Coleman · Commonwealth v. Power · 208 Wis. 2d 142 - State v. Carter

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “premised on a major misunderstanding by the sentencing judge as to the legal bounds of his authority,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “other than that for which the defendant [stood] convicted”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.